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/ˈfɔːsteɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌsteɪdʒ/ Nautical.† 1. = forecastle n. 1; hence a ship with a forecastle. Also, ship of forestage, forestage ship. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > having specific number or type of decks
forestage ship?1345
three-decker1789
two-decker1834
half-decker1872
well-decker1882
spar-decker1893
flush-decker1937
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > foredeck > raised
fore-stage?1345
forecastlec1515
?1345 MS. cited in J. Bree Cursory Sketch (1791) 110 Ships of forstage.
1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 106 Þei sey þer shuld come in-to Seyne cc gret forstages out of Spayne.
c1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden) 85 That the seyde Lord Ryvers shulde kepe certeyne grete forstage shyppys that were the erles of Warrewyk.
1481 W. Caxton Orat. G. Flamineus F iij b Gayus Flammineus Publius..had delyuerd to my gouernaunce ten shippis of forstage.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Fore-stage, the old name for forecastle.
2. Theatre. That part of the stage which lies nearest to the audience, frequently extending in front of the curtain.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > front of stage
frontispiece1651
fore-stage1923
1923 G. B. Shaw Shaw on Theatre (1958) 163 Mr. Granville-Barker..had reconstructed the London and American stages on which he worked by building a forestage out into the auditorium.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 31 On the fore-stage, an agitator is addressing a tattered crowd.
1958 Times 22 Oct. 6/3 A stepped forestage that gives access to a semi-circular apron, placed, in the manner of a Greek orchestra, immediately before it.
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